The End Of Another Year - December Recap

Friday, January 1, 2016

December was

...wait a minute...where did December go? Where did 2015 go?

I both love and hate, but mostly hate, this time of year. The concept of being joyous and spending time with loved ones is great in theory, but my life is not a Hallmark movie and rarely ends up like that.

Mostly I just ended up working and watching the last bits of 2015 slip away. For the first time in my life, I had to work the holidays, which made it extremely hard to get in the spirit of things.

Bookwise....

This month was epic. Go a head and take a look at those ratings below. I nearly killed this month with 4 and 5 star reads.

Favorite book of 2015: It is a tie between Truthwitchand The Orphan Queen.Least favorite book of 2015: Ruin and Rising. I don't know it was my "least" favorite, but it was the most disappointing.Favorite character of 2015: There are too many to choose from! Aeduan from Truthwitch,Thorne/Wolf/Cress from Winter, and Rowan/Aelin from Queen of Shadows.Least favorite character: Mal still greatly annoyed me (( Ruin and Rising )) but so did Chaol (( Queen of Shadows )) so it is a touch call on this one. (And I loved Chaol when we first met.)

Plans For The Future

Bookwise

Read 150 already owned books: By 'already owned' I mean books in my possession as of January 1st.

Read all new books as they coming in: This includes any ARCs, gifts, prizes, preorders, and random purchases.

Read five old books per every one new book I get in: Maybe this will help me tame my owned TBR some.

Blogwise

Continue to improve my statistics: My stats improved a whole lot during 2015, so I'd like to see them continue to grow.

Attract some meaningful followers and make some new blogger friends: I'd like to continue to interact with my followers, and somehow get more people to comment. I'd love to have more meaningful conversations on my blog posts and on social media.

But own domain and move to Wordpress: I've been wanting this for quite a long time, but have not had a chance to do this yet. I've been contemplating a name change, especially since I've added some co-bloggers. Maybe 2016 is the year.

Pinterest

Paper Bindings

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